Campus Reopened

The campus will be open for classes and all other business Monday, Nov. 19 and Tuesday, Nov. 20 with a regular employee workday and faculty duty day (no classes scheduled) on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Updates at go.sjsu.edu/air.

M. Wu, P. Patil(grad. student), and S. Gunaseelan(grad. student) have an article accepted for presentation and publication at the IEEE International
Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS 2018): “Comparison of Different Machine Learning Algorithms for Multiple Regression on Black
Friday Sales Data”.

M. Wu, D. Garg(grad. student), and U. Bhandary(grad. student) have an article accepted for presentation and publication at the IEEE International
Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS 2018):“Movie Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering”.

N.Khuri and S. Deshmukh (grad. student) have an article accepted for presentation and publication at the
IEEE 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (JCMLA ) 2018:
"Machine Learning for Classification of Inhibitors of Hepatic Drug Transporters".

V. Kannan (grad. student) and N.Khuri have an article accepted for presentation and publication
at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018):
“Creating Digital Collages Inspired by English Texts”.

S. Deshmukh (grad. student) and N.Khuri have an article accepted for presentation and publication
at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018):
“PediatricDB: Data Analytics Platform for Pediatric Healthcare”.

V.Kannan (grad.student), received Laurence M.Klauber Award for her research presentation at
99th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of AAAS: "Text2Collage - Visualizing Text as a Collage of Images".

W.-C.Huang (student), M.Stamp, and F. Di Troia, presented a paper at International Workshop on Behavioral Analysis for System Security
(BASS 2018), in conjunction with the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business
and Telecommunications (ICETE 2018), Porto, Portugal, July 26-28, 2018: "Robust Hashing for Image-Based Malware Classification".

N.Bagga (student), M.Stamp, and F. Di Troia, presented a paper at International Workshop on Behavioral Analysis for System Security
(BASS 2018), in conjunction with the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business
and Telecommunications (ICETE 2018), Porto, Portugal, July 26-28, 2018: "The Effectiveness of Generic Malware Models".

A. Chavda (student), K. Potika, M.Stamp, and F.Di Troia, presented a paper at International Workshop on Behavioral Analysis for System Security
(BASS 2018), in conjunction with the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business
and Telecommunications (ICETE 2018), Porto, Portugal, July 26-28, 2018: "Improved Image Spam Detection".

J. Huang (high school student), F. Di Troia and M. Stamp have a paper accepted for publication at the 2nd International Workshop on Formal
methods for Security Engineering (ForSE 2018): "Acoustic gait analysis using support vector machines".

Fan Han (undergrad. student) and D. Caires won the Best Social Innovation award of the 14th annual Silicon Valley Challenge.

H. Nguyen (CS undergrad), 2017 Outstanding Graduating Senior, will be starting PhD in Statistics
at the Ohio State University supported by the Distinguished University Fellowship
and the Lubrizol Start-Up Fellowship.

P. Mishra (grad. student), N. Khuri and S. Khuri have an abstract accepted for presentation at the 98th annual meeting of the Pacific
Division of AAAS: "TreeComparator: A Tool to Compare Tree-Based Classifiers".

M. Eirinaki (CMPE), N, Moniz, and K. Potika have an accepted paper "Threshold-Bounded Influence Dominating Sets for Recommendations
in Social Networks" at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking.

Academic Year 2015-16

T. Tran became member of editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS): as of 2015,
it’s Thomson Reuters impact factor is 2.550, which ranked JWS 11th out of 123 journals
in the Computer Science, Information Systems category, and 21st out of 121 journals
in the Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence category.

L. Zhang, T. Tran, and A. Rettinger have an accepted paper “A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness
in Vector Space Models”, In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on The
Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’15). Northampton, USA, September 2015.

S. Khuri received CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) award "Programming
for Life Scientists: Preparing Future Workforce" ($15,000).

Pushkar Umaranikar (Grad. student), and C. Pollett had a paper accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the International Conference
on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2016: "An Open Source Advertisement System".

P. Mishra (Grad. student), and C. Pollett had a paper accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the International Conference
on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2016: "A Scalable Media Job Framework for
an Open Source Search Engine".

A. Kosmatin (Grad. student) and A. Horwege (Undergrad. student) and will present their interdisciplinary research "Using Music
to Analyze Protein Sequences" at the CSUPERB Symposium. The research is supported
by the the SJSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) award. Aaron Kosmatin
is majoring in CS and Alex Horwege in Music.

Y. Satoh and S. Siahpolo (Undergrad. students) received scholarship awards from CIO Scholarship Foundation, which strives to enhance future leadership in the information systems and technology
fields throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Academic Year 2014-15

Together with his co-founder C. Ma, T. Tran raised 1.3 Million in seed funding for his startup project “Lyfeline”, creating a
Big Data platform to help parents understanding, assessing and tracking their kids’
development and address potential delays.

T. Tran became editorial board member for the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS): as of 2014, it’s Thomson Reuters impact factor is 2.3.

L. Zhang, T. Tran, and A. Rettinger have an accepted paper “Probabilistic Query Rewriting for Efficient and Effective
Keyword Search on Graph Data”, In Proceedings of 40th International Conference on
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’14). Hangzhou, China, September 2014.

H. Hong (Grad. student) and T. Moh published "Effective Topic Modeling for Email" in the Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing
and Simulation (HPCS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2015.

I. Cordova (Grad. student) and T. Moh published “DBSCAN on Resilient Distributed Datasets” in the Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International
Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), Amsterdam, Netherlands,
July 2015.

M. Talistu (Grad. student), T. Moh, and M. Moh published “Gossip-based Spectral Clustering of Distributed Data Streams” in the Proceedings
of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation
(HPCS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2015.

L. Selvan (Grad. student) and T. Moh published “A Framework for Fast-Feedback Opinion Mining on Twitter Data Streams” in the Proceedings
of the 16th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS),
Atlanta, Georgia, June 2015.

M. Moh has been awarded 2015 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) award for
"Improving Diversity in Technology Workforce Through Cyber Security Research for Female
and Minority Students" project.

A. Kapoor (Grad. student) and M. Moh published “Implementation and Evaluation of the DFF Protocol for Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) Networks” in the Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Design
of Reliable Communication Networks, Kansas City, MO, March 2015.

S. Khuri has been awarded 2015 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) award for
the "Using music to analyze DNA sequences" project.

S. Nerli (Grad. student) will present "Using Statistical Models to Predict Splice Sites and
Cryptic Splice Sites" at the 96th Annual Meeting of the AAAS Pacific Division in San Francisco, California. The research was supported by the SJSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
(RSCA) award.

S. Nerli (Grad. student) has been awarded second place prize in Engineering and Computer Science
category in the 29th Annual CSU-wide student research competition that took place at CSU in San Bernardino, May 1 - 2, 2015. The title of her research presentation is "Genome-wide
prediction of Splice Sites using Classification Trees". The research was supported
by the SJSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) award.

M. Moh and four SJSU faculty members played a key role in the establishment of the National
Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cybersecurity Education for
the academic years 2014 to 2019.

Kisha Rikhi and Arpi Shah (students) tied the first place in the Fall CS internship poster expo.

A. Agrawal (Grad. student) and M. Stamp have an article accepted for publication in International Journal of Security and Networks: Masquerade detection for GUI-based Windows systems.

F. Wu (Grad. student) and S. Khuri presented their research: Using Probabilistic Graphic Models to Solve NP-Complete
Puzzle Problems in a poster session at the 2015 AAAS conference. The research is supported by the SJSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
(RSCA) award.